Peter Brooks 
Balzac’s Lives [EPUB ebook] 

Qualifying as a veterinary surgeon over 50 years ago, James has seen enormous changes in his work of a general practitioner. From being a student learning from James Herriot through general practice …

This is a story of migration from rural Gujarat to Nairobi, Kenya and the impact of the struggles for independence from British rule on a traditional Hindu Gujarati family, and finally to London in 1 …

An autobiography of Robert Lawrence a missionary living in Sonora Mexico. It covers his life from a rebellious childhood, through the prisons of California, to Mexico missions. His conversion to Chri …

I looked again at the folded map of Europe in my hand. Then I crossed the road to the Continental booking office and bought a ticket for Salzburg in Austria. “Return?’ asked the clerk. “Definitely no …

”In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain”s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote , went on to sell more copies than any other book beside t …

“Some people hate me, some people would prefer it if I didn’t exist. Incidentally, I feel the same way about them.”“I’m a young person managing my own life, my transition and everything else that I h …

This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individual …

An autobiography of a ground-breaking medical doctor. Dr. David A. Hamburg started as a medical student with interest in stress disorders, paying special attention to the propensity toward violence, …

This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and later, in th …